What's on in London on Tuesday 2nd August 2022

Free  From Shakespeare to Shelley: How medicine influenced literature

This exhibition explores medical themes in literature, looking at those who've left the world of medicine behind to become some of our best-loved wordsmiths.

Free  Off the Rails: The Line that never was

An exhibition exploring the Elstree Extension through the Northern Heights that was suspended during World War 2, and never restarted.

£16  Breaking the News

Explore five centuries of UK news through broadsheets, blogs and objects from our own collection and examine era-defining stories close-up.

Free  Visualising Victorian News

A display of infographics illustrating 19th-century news themes

£16.50  True Crime: The Case of Philips Wouwerman

An exhibition based around the disputed claims that the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman was a plagiarist.

Free  Rooted Beings

The exhibition considers what we might learn from plant behaviour, and the impacts of colonial expeditions on the exploitation of natural resources and indigenous knowledges.

£10.50   Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics

Enter into the world of superheroes in this first major exhibition to explore the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees, and foster children in comics, graphic novels and sequential art from around the globe.

Free  Printmaking in Prague - art from the court of Rudolf II

In this exhibition, learn more about printmaking in Rudolf's court in Prague during the highpoint of innovative and ambitious prints made from around 1580 until the early years of the 17th century.

£18  Our Time on Earth

This exhibition of art, science, design, music and philosophy invites you to experience different global perspectives on our shared planet, and consider Earth as a community we all belong to.